71° Lat Chat - the UIC Science Podcast

In this episode of  71° Lat Chat , Michelle Johannsen and Maya Homsy King from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) join Serina Wesen and Clarissa Zeller to talk about One Health research across Alaska’s Arctic and Beringia regions. Together, they explore how wildlife health, human health, and environmental change are deeply interconnected and why local and Indigenous knowledge is critical to u...

On this episode of UIC Science’s 71° Lat Chat, Lloyd Pikok Jr. sits down with JPL engineers Dan Berisford and Russell Smith to talk about BRUIE—the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration —a buoyant, wheeled robot that drives along the ice–water interface at Sukok Lake to study methane seeps and seasonal lake chemistry. The team shares why this Arctic field site matters, how under-ice communicatio...

In this episode of 71° Lat Chat , Iñupiaq photographer and videographer Lloyd Pikok Jr. of UIC Science sits down with artists and Arctic researchers Colleen Iversen , an embroidery artist with NGEE Arctic , Faustine Bernadac , a drawing and painting artist with Polar Field Services, Inc. , and Claire Houmard , a writer with Marie and Louis Pasteur University , to explore the powerful intersection...